Feature requests and bug reports
Hello, Community! We haven't had clear guidelines on when and how to create suitable tasks in our Phorge development portal for a long time. As the community gr...
VyOS Project April 2024 Update
Hello, Сommunity! In March, we made many minor improvements to existing features. Still, there are some significant features: many new services are available fo...
xz backdoor, netfilter vulnerability, and a rolling release signing key leak
Hello, Community! There were quite a few security incidents lately that caught everyone's attention. Thankfully, none had any real impact on VyOS security, but ...
VyOS Project March 2024 Update
Hello, Community! While VyOS 1.4/Sagitta has taken its final shape, and we are working to smoothen any remaining sharp edges (especially in migration scripts), ...
VyOS 1.4.0-epa2
Hello, Community! VyOS 1.4.0-epa2 image is now available to customers and contributors (and everyone can build it from the sagitta branch of vyos-build, of cour...
VyOS 1.4.0 (Sagitta) LTS release
Hello, Community! We are happy to announce that the VyOS 1.4.0-epa1 image is now available to customers and contributors (and everyone can build it from the sag...
VyOS 1.3.6 maintenance release
Hello, community! VyOS 1.3.6 LTS release is here — with many bug fixes and security updates. The most important are fixes for denial of service vulnerabilities ...
VyOS Project February 2024 Update
Hello, community! Curious what we've been up to in January? Our main focus is the final stabilization of the 1.4.0/Sagitta branch, and we will soon make the fir...
Join VyOS at FOSDEM 2024 (Feb 3-4)
Hello, community! We're thrilled to announce that VyOS will be part of FOSDEM 2024, one of the most significant and vibrant events in the open-source world. We'...
VyOS 1.4.0-rc3 release candidate
Hello, Community! VyOS 1.4.0-rc3 image is now available for everyone to download and test. We are grateful to everyone who helped us test previously release can...
Thrilled to announce that VyOS is exhibiting at #MWC24
Hello Community! Thrilled to announce that VyOS is exhibiting at #MWC24 – the world’s largest and most influential connectivity event. Be first to see our lates...
VyOS Project January 2024 Update
Hello, Community! The new monthly development update is here. Quite a few of these changes were already mentioned in the 1.4.0-rc1 release candidate post, but q...
VyOS 1.4.0-rc1 release candidate
Hello, community! Exactly two years ago we made the VyOS 1.3.0/Equuleus LTS release. Now, after two years of development, the upcoming 1.4.0/Sagitta release has...
VyOS 1.3.5 security release
Hello, Сommunity! VyOS 1.3.5/Equuleus LTS release is now officially available for download for customers and contributors. It includes fixes for two security vu...
EVPN-VXLAN Enhancements - Introducing Single VXLAN Device Support
Hello, fellow VyOS community members, this is Christian again! it has been some time, but now I am back with a new post about EVPN-VXLAN networks built on VyOS....
VyOS ASCII Art Contest
Hello VyOS Community! The VyOS ASCII art contest is here, and we invite everyone to help us make a new default login banner for VyOS.
VyOS Project December 2023 update
Hello, community! While we are now mostly busy with stabilizing the future 1.4.0 LTS release and also working on the new 1.3.5 maintenance release, there's stil...
New book by Daniil Baturin: Linux for System Administrators
Hello, Community! Many people from our generation, including myself and VyOS maintainers and contributors, learned about Linux from books. At the time, there wa...
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announcement
VyOS and VPP - progress and plans
A few months ago, attentive readers may have seen in the blog post that in rolling releases we included the VPP data plane. Most attentive may also notice that ...
VyOS LTS Support Policy
Hello, Community! Now that the 1.3.4 LTS release is over and the upcoming 1.4.0 release is on its path to the first early production access release, we'd like t...
VyOS Project November 2023 update
Hello, Community! Curious what we've been up to lately? Here's the update for November: it includes the removal of the long de-facto deprecated cluster feature ...
VyOS 1.3.4 LTS release
Hello, Community! VyOS 1.3.4/Equuleus release is now officially available for download for customers and contributors. It includes a number of small features an...
What's left to do for 1.4 LTS? New zone-based firewall and more
Hello, Community! Many people ask us when VyOS 1.4 will become a stable release. Some people have even started using development builds of the Sagitta branch in...
VyOS Project October 2023 Update
Hello, Community! September was quite the hectic month for us, not only because of the upcoming release of VyOS 1.4 Sagitta (you may have noticed the new branch...
What's coming for OpenVPN in VyOS 1.4?
Hello, Community! OpenVPN is one of the oldest open-source VPN protocols and implementations. It took the world by storm in the early 2000s because it was a hug...
VyOS Project September 2023 Update
Hello, community! We're back with an end-of-summer update. We've been quite busy cleaning up legacy code, fixing bugs, and adding remaining features planned for...
10 years of VyOS, 30 years of Debian, 40 years of GNU
Hello, Community! This year is a year of three anniversaries that are very important for us. In October, VyOS turns 10. In August, Debian turned 30; in Septembe...
VyOS Project August 2023 Update
Hello, Сommunity! Summer may be supposed to be a quiet season, but there's quite some work that VyOS maintainers and contributors managed to do in July, nonethe...
Zenbleed and OpenSSH agent vulnerabilities and their impact on VyOS
Hello, Community! Recently, two severe vulnerabilities were discovered by security researchers. One of them is nicknamed Zenbleed (CVE-2023-20593) and affects a...
VyOS Project July 2023 Update
Hello, Сommunity! We hope you enjoy your summer! In June, there was a lot of work done on VyOS. Why is this update so short, then? One reason is that VyOS 1.4 i...
VyOS 1.3.3 LTS release
Hello, Community! VyOS 1.3.3 (Equuleus) LTS release is now available for download to subscribers and contributors. The interval between 1.3.2 (released in the p...
VyOS project June 2023 update
Hello, community! We constantly develop VyOS, even if we don't always share updates. Currently, we're focused on the 1.3.3 LTS release, which should be out thes...
VyOS project April 2023 update
Hello, Community! We haven't posted development updates lately, but that's just because there were lots of things to do, not because development has slowed down...
VyOS support portal migration is complete
Hello Community! The support portal migration that we announced on Friday is now complete. The new FreshDesk platform will help us offer our customers and suppo...
VyOS support portal migration
Dear VyOS Community, This weekend (from Apr 15 10:00 UTC till Apr 16 18:00 UTC ), we will migrate the support portal to a new platform. We have done quite a lot...
VyOS 1.2.9-S1 maintenance release
Hello, community! VyOS 1.2.9-S1 maintenance and security release is now available for download to everyone. We planned 1.2.9 to become the last 1.2.x release un...
VyOS in 2023: multi-year subscriptions, future plans, and more
Hello, Community! This mail contains essential information about subscriptions. We are already two months into 2023 and expect this year to impact the VyOS proj...
VyOS is now on AWS Outposts and Azure Stack Hub
Hello Community! We have not posted much lately, but the work backstage never stops. We keep working on the 1.4 release that should become the new LTS later thi...
Community support for open-source and why it's important
Hello, Community and happy winter holidays to all! VyOS 1.2.9, the last routine GA release in the 1.2.x line. It may not be the last release in that line in gen...
VyOS 1.2.9 maintenance release
Hello, Community! VyOS 1.2.9, the last planned maintenance release of the Crux branch, is now available for subscribers to download. This marks the end of the G...
VyOS Project November 2022 Update
Hello, community! If you are wondering what we've been up to — we are on track to bring the 1.4/Sagitta release to its final shape and we are pretty sure next y...
Recent OpenSSL vulnerabilities do not affect any VyOS versions
Many people are concerned about recently announced OpenSSL vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602). However, none of the VyOS versions ever released a...
VyOS Project October 2022 Update
Hello, community! @e added new firewall options, improved NAT66, brought IPv4 network mapping back, and fixed a whole bunch of bugs, and rewrote multiple operat...
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VyOS Sundays #2: join us on September the 25th, 16:00 UTC
Hello Community! In our live stream, we'll discuss the following topics: OpenCollective and its role in our project. The distinction between "free as in price" ...
The future of VyOS image signature verification
There's one thing about our releases that we introduced quietly and neglected to explain to those unfamiliar with it: minisign signatures. Let's discuss why we ...
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security
VyOS 1.3.2 LTS release
Hello, community! VyOS 1.3.2 LTS release is now available for subscribers to download and for everyone to build. It features over a dozen improvements and about...
VyOS Project July 2022 Update
Hello, Community! It is time for a new update! The most important news this time includes FRR upgrade to the latest stable version 8.3, RADIUS QoS attribute sup...
Writing VyOS operational mode commands just got better!
Hello, Community! Writing scripts for operational mode commands used to require quite a bit of tedious to handle sub-commands and options, and there were no gui...
Professional Access Subscriptions are now retired
Dear Subscribers, Professional subscriptions are now completely retired and can no longer be renewed. However, you can upgrade them to Corporate with a 50% to 7...
Reusing existing hardware: let’s build a community HCL!
Hello Community! The hardware crisis isn’t getting any better. If anything, there’s a chance that it’s only the beginning. It’s not yet certain whether high pri...
VyOS Project June 2022 Update
Hello, community! It's been a while since our last update, so it is time for the progress update for June. Our schedule was definitely disrupted, but we never s...
Which VPN protocol to use
Hello Community! A question that often comes up in networking software discussions is "which VPN protocol should I use?" followed by "why should I use that one ...
Let’s meet at the MSP Summit and the Channel Partners Conference & Expo in Las Vegas on April 11-14!
Hello! In 2022 non-virtual events are returning to life. During the summer and fall, we will see a lot of classic conferences produced in hybrid rather than pur...
VyOS 1.3.1-S1 security release
Hello Community! VyOS 1.3.1-S1 security release is now available to customers and contributors to download, and everyone can build it from the source. It fixes ...
CVE-2022-0778: remote DoS in OpenSSL, VyOS 1.3.0 is affected
Hello Community! Yesterday the OpenSSL team disclosed a remote DoS vulnerability in OpenSSL versions 1.0.2, 1.1.1, and 3.0. You can find a complete description ...
Global security issue with Russian Federation invasion into Ukraine
Hello Community! The VyOS team, just like our project, is highly distributed, with people, both employees and community members in multiple countries worldwide,...
VyOS on Open Collective
Hello Community! Happy New Year to you and your families! And the beginning of a new year is an excellent time to make improvements that will help our community...
VyOS 1.3.0 LTS release
VyOS 1.3.0 (Equuleus) is now GA, and images are available to our customers and contributors. After three years in development and an extended-release candidate/...
Log4Shell vulnerability
Hello Community! Everyone is talking about the CVE-2021-44228 vulnerability recently found in the Log4j logging library, which was nicknamed Log4Shell because i...
VyOS Foundation—Work In Progress
Hello Community! You may remember that we were to set up a non-profit VyOS Foundation and that we started that process already back then. The progress wasn't ve...
VyOS 1.3.0-epa3 release
Hello! VyOS 1.3.0-epa3 release is available now. The generic ISO image is available publicly, while subscribers can access additional flavors through the suppor...
VyOS 1.3.0-epa2 release
Hello Community! VyOS 1.3.0-epa2 release is available now. The generic ISO image is available publicly, while subscribers can access additional flavors through ...
Benefits for contributors and long-time customers and more
Hello, Community! Happy Friday! The VyOS 1.3.0-epa2 release is underway and we’d like to say thanks to everyone who contributes and makes that possible, by work...
VyOS 1.3.0-epa1 release
Hello, Community! VyOS 1.3.0-epa1 images are now available for download. The “epa” suffix stands for “early production access”—the finish line of the new LTS re...
The future of VyOS, part 4: Governance
The future of VyOS, part 4: Governance Hello Community! This is the last article from the series about VyOS future and it's about project governance. I planned ...
Writing migration scripts
As VyOS evolves, so does its CLI. Obsolete features get deprecated over time and new features replace older ones. Thus, the configuration syntax evolves in tand...
VyOS 1.3.0-rc6, the last release candidate
Hello Community! VyOS 1.3.0-rc6 release candidate image is now available for download. Quite some time passed between 1.3.0-rc5 and this release, mostly due to ...
VyOS Project July 2021 Update
Hi again! It's time for the progress update for the month of July. We are still on the road to the 1.3.0-epa1 release that will mark the transition of the 1.3/E...
PKI and IPSec IKEv2 remote-access VPN
Hello! VyOS was always strong in supporting a multitude of different VPN techniques ranging from old school IPsec site-to-site/DMVPN setups to new kids on the b...
VyOS Project May/June 2021 Update
Hello everyone, it's time for the progress update for the months of May and June. We've been a bit too busy with working on the code that we forgot to post a pr...
VyOS 1.2.8 and VyOS 1.3.0-rc5 are available
In this post, we announce not one, but two releases at once. First, VyOS 1.2.8 LTS release is available to subscribers and everyone is welcome to build their ow...
The future of VyOS, part 3: the business model
Hello Community! This is the third post in our series about the VyOS Project future and this time we'll talk about our business model, relationship with the com...
The future of VyOS, part 2: the local GUI and the controller
Hello Community! The future of VyOS is bright! And we are happy to see more participants! In the previous post, we talked about the release schedule, and in thi...
The future of VyOS, part 1: release schedule
Hello Community! The future of VyOS is bright! And in this post series, we will talk about our plans for the VyOS Project. This first post focuses on the most i...
VyOS Project April 2021 Update
Hello again! Another month has passed, and now it's time for the April update. The most important news of the past month includes a VyOS 1.3.0-rc4 release candi...
Migrating subscription management to Oracle NetSuite
Greetings! We have an important announcement for our subscribers. Currently, we are migrating our subscription management from a self-hosted WooCommerce install...
VyOS 1.3.0-rc4 release candidate is available
VyOS 1.3.0-rc4 release candidate is now officially available for free download. We invite everyone to test it and report any issues you may find. Remember that ...
Support portal maintenance has been completed successfully
Even though it took longer than we expected, we've successfully completed support portal maintenance and support.vyos.io is back online, so you can view and cre...
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maintenance
Support portal maintenance
Tomorrow (April the 29th) we are planning to do some maintenance on the support portal (support.vyos.io) that provides an interface to tickets, a knowledge base...
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maintenance
L3VPN EVPN with VyOS
Hello, fellow VyOS community members, this is Christian again! As promised in my last post about BGP L2VPN/EVPN support via VXLAN transport, this post is one of...
VyOS Project February/March 2021 Update
Hi everyone! It's time for the spring update.
VyOS 1.2.7 release
Hello! VyOS 1.2.7 LTS release is now available to subscribers, and everyone can build an equivalent image from our repositories. This release took a while to co...
BGP L2VPN/EVPN support via VXLAN transport
Hello and Happy Friday My name is Christian, but you also may know me as c-po here at VyOS Project. I'm an experienced (Embedded) Linux developer with a deep pa...
VyOS 1.2.7-epa1 and 1.3.0-rc1 images are available
VyOS 1.2.7-epa1 First, VyOS 1.2.7-epa1 is now available to subscribers, and everyone can build an equivalent image from our repositories. It's a rather big rele...
VyOS Project January 2021 Update
The winter break is over and the first month of the new year has passed. As usual, we’ve been busy with improving VyOS and its infrastructure. The main highligh...
Adding custom operational mode commands to VyOS
The operational mode (op mode for short) is half of the VyOS CLI, the other half being configuration mode (conf mode for short). Maintenance and administration ...
Pipes in VyOS CLI
Unix pipes are an indispensable tool on a sysadmin’s belt. Eventually, it becomes second nature to build a pipeline of several tools to transform data and one o...
2020 recap and 2021 Q1 plan
Happy new year everyone! The year 2020 has been a productive year for VyOS. We are happy to see new contributors join and work with us; happy to see customers g...
VyOS LAB — VulcanBay unboxing and a holidays giveaway
Hi everyone, Here's something to brighten up this holidays season. First, we are going to do a live stream this Sunday where we'll reveal our new network perfor...
VyOS Project October/November 2020 Update
Hi everyone, This may be our most delayed update in history, but as they say, "better late than never". Early in November, United States elections have been a f...
Cyber Monday: more thanks, and more special offers
The season of greetings and special offers continues. In times like these, we think it's especially important to show gratitude to everyone who's helping us and...
Big thanks and special offers for the winter holidays
Hello and happy Thanksgiving! Winter holidays season is begun. This year isn't joyful one because of all that pandemic but It's been an important year for us at...
VyOS Project September 2020 Update
The biggest announcement of September was the 1.2.6 release, and we even skipped the August update while we've been busy with it and the automated release proce...
VyOS 1.2.6-S1 security release
VyOS 1.2.6 release was found to be suspectible to CVE-2020-10995. It's a low-impact vulnerability in the PowerDNS recursor that allows an attacker to cause perf...
VyOS 1.2.6 maintenance release
VyOS 1.2.6 release is now available to our customers and contributors. VyOS 1.2.6 remains a fully supported branch and will not enter an extended support phase ...
VyOS 1.2.6-epa1 is available
Prebuilt VyOS 1.2.6-epa1 image is available to subscribers! You can find it in the downloads section of the support portal.
VyOS Project July 2020 Update
More than a half of this year has passed. The year started busy for us and there’s no slowing down. We are glad to be helping people and companies stay connecte...
Reasons to choose an open source solution vendor
Recently I've stumbled upon a piece of FUD by SolarWinds that specifically mentions VyOS. VyOS, it says, "mimics well-known vendors and can be deployed in a lab...
VyOS Project June 2020 Update
As usual, we've been quite busy. First of all, sorry for the nonsensical "VyOS News Digest". The webmasters we hired to help us look after the social media acco...
Growing VyOS community and project side by side
There is a popular fiction that if you have a good project, a community automatically forms around it and gives it the publicity it deserves. In reality, it var...
Telemetry poll results and their implications
Our previous post regarding the prospect of introducing telemetry ended up pretty divisive. Apart from the sensitive nature of the topic itself, there were some...
VyOS Project May 2020 Update
As usual, May was a busy month for VyOS. Originally we’ve planned a soft freeze of the 1.3 branches for early May, but it didn’t work as planned—in reality May ...
Images for labs, geeks and other non-production use
You might have noticed Patreon and BuyMeACoffee donate buttons. We introduced them silently, and we are happy to see people donating just because they want to s...
VyOS Foundation Announcement
As you may already know, the VyOS project was started as a response to the cancellation of Vyatta Core, an open-source version of Vyatta that we used and loved....
Is VyOS CLI fast yet?
Many people have noticed that in rolling release builds, everything was getting slower. Boot time, commit time, and even the time it takes to enter set commands...
VyOS Certification Discounts in May
When we announced the VyOS Certified Network Engineer exam, we said the first hundred applicants will get a 50% discount and need to pay only 100 EUR rather tha...
VyOS and Nutanix collaboration moves to new level
Happy Friday! We hope you all are doing well and stay safe! While it´s all unfortunate situation, it should not hold us back. These days many companies need to ...
VyOS 1.2.5 maintenance release
VyOS 1.2.5 maintenance release is finally available. Subscribers can download it from the support portal, and everyone can build it from the Crux branch and clo...
Customizing Ubiquiti USG configuration with JSON just got easier
Ubiquiti USG (Unified Security Gateway) is a router and firewall appliance that is closely related to the EdgeMax product line, even though it's marketed as a p...
VyOS Certifications - VyOS Certified Networks Engineer (VCNE)
VyOS certifications for network engineers is one of the hot topics during the last years. Not only people were asking us when certification will be available, w...
VyOS Project March 2020 Update
As usual, we’ve been busy working on the 1.2.x LTS release and on the future 1.3.0 version. One important update is that VyOS 1.2.5-epa2 (early production acces...
VyOS team offer help for most affected by COVID-2019 outbreak
To contain the spread of the COVID-19 infection, many governments and organizations are now using unprecedented social distancing measures, such as switching en...
VyOS Project 2020 February Update
We skipped January update as we were busy, but time flies fast so here it is. February update, first in 2020 and with bunch updates!
VyOS for Australian companies
Hello! We want to help in recovering Australia after fires. so if you Australia-based, read below, and if not, read below anyway
VyOS Access subscriptions for documentation
Documentation, sadly, is a sour topic for many open source networking projects. Web frameworks and libraries, graphics software, sometimes even games have more ...
VyOS 1.2.4 release
Happy new year! I hope you all had a good rest while we preparing this release. It´s been a while from last 1.2.4 EPA but testing went pretty good. Thanks to al...
VyOS Project 2019 December Update
It's almost winter holidays time already! It's been a great year for VyOS, with many big improvements in the code, and more community contributions to the code ...
VyOS Project 2019 November Update
Welcome to the monthly round of VyOS project updates. What do we have in store for you?
VyOS Project 2019 October update
Everyone is probably aware that VyOS was built upon a codebase that hasn't aged well. VyOS 1.2.0 was all about a (sometimes painful) base system and codebase re...
Software and Support Subscriptions Update
Finally we have finished updating our website (there’s still an ongoing work on improving it though, and your suggestions are welcome!) And it's time to update ...
VyOS 1.2.3 release
VyOS 1.2.3-epa1 ("early production access") release images are available for download for customers and active contributors, and everyone is welcome to build it...
VyOS Project 2019 August update
With cloud support, a simplified installation process, and a potentially much faster VPN, we can proudly say we’ve had a busy month. What can you expect from th...
VyOS 1.2.2 maintenance release
VyOS 1.2.2 maintenance release is now available. Our customers and active contributors who have a subscription can download the images from the support portal, ...
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1.2
VyOS rolling release has got an HTTP API
In short: a prototype of an HTTP API is now included in the nightly builds and available for testing. Right now it requires some manual configuration to get run...
CVE-2019-11477 (TCP SACK panic) and an Intel i40e driver issue
Recently discovered vulnerability in the Linux kernel's TCP selective acknowledgement processing code potentially allows a remote attacker to cause a kernel pan...
VyOS Project 2019 - June update
The summer is often a slow news season, but we’ve got quite a few things to share. We’ve been slacking off on posting development news and keeping the community...
Support portal maintenance is over
Support portal maintenance is over now, you should be able to use portal as always Please let us know if you experiencing problems.
Support portal maintenance
We will perform support portal maintenance starting from 18:00 CEST and it will take up to 5 hours, during this period short interruptions can have place
VyOS 1.2.1 release
We have just released VyOS 1.2.1. The images are available to subscribers and public clouds images submitted, and if you build an image from the Crux branch now...
Google Season of Docs
Everyone knows about the Google Summer of Code program, but now there's more. Recently they announced a new program called Season of Docs. It matches technical ...
Where is my OVA dude?
Greetings! As we mentioned in emails, OVA bit delayed, as always, there are reasons for that. First one is VMWare Ready validation that we hope will finish soon...
Contributors, contributions and badges
Looks like there’s quite a bit of misunderstanding regarding free subscriptions for contributors, who is eligible, and how people can contribute to the VyOS Pro...
VyOS 1.2 (Crux) released
VyOS 1.2.0 LTS is here. We are now merging the final bug fixes and preparing the images and cloud listings. Once the images are ready, we’ll send the download l...
VyOS 1.2(Crux) EPA3 available to subscribers
The new VyOS 1.2.0-epa3 early is ready and available to subscribers
We are hiring!
Hey Guys! Are you an open source evangelist, love Linux and know lots about traffic routing? Check the detail of Network Engineer position if you want to become...
wiki and new support portal
We making some changes to the wiki account registration process and introducing new support portal also encourage wiki/documentation contributors
VyOS 1.2(Crux)-EPA2 is here
VyOS 1.2.0-epa2 release is now available to subscribers and can be built from the crux branch.
1.2 LTS Access Subscriptions pre-order launch & VyOS 1.1.x EOL
Early Production Access for 1.2.0 LTS binaries is here. We are upgrading our production routers as well as routers of our existing customers and partners, these...
VyOS 1.2.0-rc11 is available for download
VyOS 1.2.0-rc11 is available for download from https://downloads.vyos.io/?dir=testing/1.2.0-rc11.
Last RC, Early Production Access, Educational and non-profit Access Subscriptions
Hello Community! We were busy as always doing coding and some more useful stuff, but it’s time for an update.
VyOS 1.2.0-rc10 is available for download
VyOS 1.2.0-rc10 is available for download from https://downloads.vyos.io/?dir=testing/1.2.0-rc10 Resolved issues The following issues have been fixed: If you sa...
VyOS 1.2.0-rc9 is available for download
We are getting closer and closer to the stable release. There are still bugs for a couple more release candidates, and some features we need to get in, but gene...
VyOS release model change
Now that we are approaching the 1.2.0 LTS release, it's time to make a big announcement. Perhaps we should have made it earlier, but we've been too busy coding....
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Uncategorized
VyOS 1.2.0-rc8 is available for download
A new release candidate, 1.2.0-rc8 is available for download from https://downloads.vyos.io/?dir=testing/1.2.0-rc8 As usual, it offers a few bugfixes, but also ...
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Uncategorized
VyOS 1.2.0-rc7 is available for download
Yet another release candidate, with more bug fixes and some experimental features. We are grateful to everyone who reported these bugs and sent us patches for t...
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Uncategorized
VyOS 1.2.0-rc6 is available for download
As usual, every week we make a new release candidate so that people interested in testing can test the changes quickly and people who reported bugs can confirm ...
The "operator" level is proved insecure and will be removed in the next releases
The operator level in VyOS is a legacy feature that was inherited from the forked Vyatta Core code. It was always relatively obscure, and I don't think anyone r...
VyOS 1.2.0-rc5 is available for download
As the tradition dictates, the new weekly release candidate is available for download Package updates The following packages have been updated: Linux kernel to ...
VyOS 1.2.0-rc4 is available for download
VyOS 1.2.0-rc4 release candidate is available for download from here The release includes multiple bug fixes and a few small features. You can view the complete...
VyOS 1.2.0-rc3 is available for download, with BGP large communities and new bugfixes
VyOS 1.2.0-rc3 release candidate is available for download from https://downloads.vyos.io/?dir=testing/1.2.0-rc3 Thanks to all people testing release candidates...
VyOS 1.2.0-rc2 is available for download, with fixes to wireguard and PBR
The second release candiate is available for download from https://downloads.vyos.io/?dir=testing/1.2.0-rc2 We are happy to see so many people test the release ...
First VyOS 1.2.0 release candidate is available for download
This month, the VyOS project turns five years old. In these five years, VyOS has been through highs and lows, up to speculation that the project is dead. Past y...
VyOS development news in August and September
Most importantly: all but one blockers for the 1.2.0 release candidate are now resolved. Quite obviously, for the release candidate, we want all features that w...
Build server maintenance
We are doing some maintenance on ci.vyos.net and the build hosts. They may be inaccessible for an hour or two. We will notify you if it takes longer than expect...
VyOS 1.2.0 development news in July
Despite the slow news season and the RAID incident that luckily slowed us down only for a couple of days, I think we've made good progress in July. First, Kim H...
On "run reset vrrp master"
I've just exorcised a ghost of the old VRRP CLI implementation — the "reset vrrp master" command. I thought it would go away with the vyatta-vrrp package, but i...
New VRRP CLI is here (with IPv6 support)
Ever since I started with Vyatta, I've had a problem with commands for features unrelated to interfaces being defined inside interfaces. I'm sure the person who...
Making first boot scripts just got easier (but building vyos-1x got a bit harder)
As you probably know already, we are working on integrating cloud-init into VyOS, which will allow us to support multiple cloud platforms, and get rid of the cu...
Infrastructure failure resolved, downloads.vyos.io is back now
We have managed to resolve the infrastructure problems and bring the affected machines back intact. Now downloads.vyos.io and ci.vyos.net are back online, and o...
Infrastructure failure
Hi everyone, We've had a catastrophic failure on one of our hosts: two drives in a RAID5 failed simultaneously. A number of VMs related to the development infra...
Building VyOS images with custom packages just got simpler
While the new build scripts first introduced when we migrated the development branch to jessie made things much simpler for developers and for people who just w...
Versions mystery revealed
Over last few years, I saw many combinations and theories around VyOS, Vyatta, EdgeOS that I decided to shed light on this and also explain current and future V...
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VyOS 1.2.0 development news in June
If we haven't written any new blog posts in a while, that's because we've all been busy with development. Here is what happened since the last status update. RA...
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Writing migration scripts (and manipulating VyOS config files outside VyOS) just got easier
Long story short VyOS 1.2.0-rolling (starting with the next nightly build) includes a library for parsing and manipulating config files without loading them int...
Things the new style configuration mode definitions intentionally do not support
I've made three important changes to the design of the configuration command definitions, and later I realized that I never wrote down a complete explanation of...
New-style operational mode command definitions are here
We've had a convertor from the new style configuration command definitions in XML to the old style "templates" for a while in VyOS 1.2.0. As I predicted, a numb...
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VyOS 1.2.0 status update
While VyOS 1.2.0 nightly builds have been fairly usable for a while already, there are still some things to be done because we can make a named release candidat...
On security of GRE/IPsec scenarios
As we've already discussed, there are many ways to setup GRE (or something else) over IPsec and they all have their advantages and disadvantages. Recently an is...
When VyOS CLI isn't enough
Sometimes a particular configuration option is supported by the software that VyOS uses, but the CLI does not expose it. Since VyOS is open source, you can alwa...
DNS forwarding in VyOS
Update (February 2021): As of VyOS 1.2.0 "service dns forwarding listen-on" has been deprecated. Please use "service dns forwarding listen-address" instead. In ...
Loopback and the dummies
"There is no place like 127.0.0.1" the old saying goes. While the loopback interface is most often seen as the interface where the 127.0.0.1 address is assigned...
Naming of the nightly builds
Historically, we used to use "999.$timestamp" version numbers for development builds, including nightly builds. In our build scripts termninology, a development...
VyOS to leverage the blockchain technology
Wild success of the blockchain technology on the mass market in the past couple of years is truly remarkable and it allowed many startups to raise substantial c...
Take a third option: site to site OpenVPN
I've written a long series of post about setting up IPsec VPNs between NATed machines. As you've already seen, with some creative configuration it's possible, b...
Ongoing improvements in project
Hi everyone, While developers are working on the 1.2.0 release candidate, myself I’ve been looking into ways to improve the social and commercial aspects of pro...
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How to use AS path matching in your BGP policies
AS path is one of the most fundamental attributes of a (e)BGP advertisments. Its length is the first parameter in the best path selection algorithm (shorter is ...
Firewall groups today and tomorrow
Substantial work has been done by Marian Tudosoiu to bring IPv6 firewall groups to the current implementation of firewall configuration scripts even before we g...
The night of living dead protocols: RIPv2
RIP's name seems to have anticipated its ultimate fate. It used to stand for Routing Information Protocol before newer and better protocols killed it. Still, mo...
Using the "policy route" and packet marking for custom QoS matches
There is only that much you can do in a QoS rules to describe the traffic you want it to match. There's DCP, source/destination, and protocol, and that's enough...
IP tunnels I have known and loved
Today we'll talk about the "classic" IP tunneling protocols. GRE is often seen as a one size fits all solution when it comes to classic IP tunneling protocols, ...
First ProNet Portal drafts, new Partners and Social Media
Hello Community! We are super excited that VyOS finally gets the traction that it deserves and we have a few interesting updates to share with you! VyOS 1.2.0-r...
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NAT with a thousand faces
The familiar use cases for NAT are source NAT/masquerade for allowing private subnets access to the Internet, and port forwarding from the Internet to a host in...
Configuration versioning and archiving in VyOS
Last time I promised "node copying/renaming, node comments, and other little known features of the VyOS CLI", but the post actually only mentioned copying/renam...
ProNet details and registration form
We are excited to see so much interest in the ProNet partner program. While we collect applications from people and companies, we have already started working o...
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ProNet Announcement
Hello Community! In the past few months there was a significant growth of interest to VyOS Project. We’ve started getting more requests from companies looking f...
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Interaction between IPsec and NAT (on the same router)
I've just completed a certain unusual setup that involved NATing packets before they are sent to an IPsec tunnel, so I thought I'll write about this topic. Even...
Copying/renaming, node comments, and other little known features of the VyOS CLI
I promised not to write about either IPsec or NAT this time, so we'll discuss something else: the little known features of the VyOS CLI. Many people only ever u...
Setting up GRE/IPsec behind NAT
In the previous posts of this series we've discussed setting up "plain" IPsec tunnels from behind NAT. The transparency of the plain IPsec, however, is more oft...
How to setup an IPsec connection between two NATed peers: using id's and RSA keys
In the previous post from this series, we've discussed setting up an IPsec tunnel from a NATed router to a non-NATed one. The key point is that in the presence ...
